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  • Composting

    Fundamentals and Recent Advances

    Edited by Antoni Sánchez, Teresa Gea, Xavier Font, Adriana Artola, Raquel Barrena, Javier Moral-Vico ...
    Every year a huge amount of organic solid waste is generated globally. This quantity is expected to keep increasing, making sustainable, safe and environmentally responsible management of solid waste vitally important. Composting offers a circular and low-impact route to managing and treating organic solid waste and produces a nutrient rich medium with uses in horticulture and agriculture ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Planning and Managing Sustainability in Tourism

    Empirical Studies, Best-practice Cases and Theoretical Insights

    Edited by Anna Farmaki, Levent Altinay, Xavier Font ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book provides a holistic approach to understand the challenges and opportunities related to the planning and management of sustainable development in tourism. The editors present a collection of empirical studies, best-practice cases, and theoretical discussions to draw insights on the economic, social, environmental, and political dimensions of sustainability. Specifically, using a range of ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Elephant Tourism Business, The

    by Eric Laws, Professor Noel Scott, Professor Xavier Font, Professor John Koldowski, Ann Suwaree Ashton, Liv Baker, Sumanth Bindumadhav0, Sarah Blaine1, Eric Brymer2, Naphawan Chantradoan3, Saranphat Chotmanakul4, Qingming Cui5, Susanna Curtin6, Charlotte Day7, Nilakshi Galahitiyawe8, Vivek Gurusamy9, Nicole Hausler0, Jeffrey Dale Hobbs1, Claire Jenkinson2, Naut Kusters3, Shilpa Mahbubani4, Andrew McLean5, Mucha Mkono6, Somyot Ongkhluap7, Anja Pabel8, Piengpen Na Pattalung9, Clive Phillips0, Kannapa Pongponrat1, Bongkosh Rittichainuwat2, John Edward Roberts3, Andrea Saayman4, Melville Saayman5, Jan Schmidt-Burbach6, Alokparna Sengupta7, Vinathe Sharma-Brymer8, Ramona Strödecke9, Daminda Sumanapala0, Daniel Turner1, Marjorie Van Strein2, Rebecca Winkler3, Isabelle Wolf4, Honggang Xu5 ...
    Elephant tourism is a growing activity in many countries across Asia and Africa and is popular with tourists from all parts of the world. Elephant tourism has grown rapidly, providing the only viable way for elephants and their owners to survive since the banning of logging. Old logging camps have been developed into sanctuaries for some elephants, but many other camps were established as ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility for Sustainable Tourism

    Edited by Xavier Font, Jennifer Lynes ...
    This comprehensive volume considers the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of tourism and hospitality firms towards stakeholders, exploring CSR in terms of broad stakeholder accountability by considering both the scope of reporting and the quality of stakeholder engagement. The authors analyse how CSR contributes to shareholder accountability (i.e. as financial performance) by developing a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Marketing for Sustainable Tourism

    Edited by Xavier Font, Scott McCabe ...
    Tourism marketing has typically been seen as exploitative and fuelling hedonistic consumerism. Sustainability marketing can, however, use marketing skills and techniques to good purpose, by understanding market needs, designing more sustainable products and identifying more persuasive methods of communication to bring behavioural change. This book summarises the latest research on the theories, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Cruise Ship Tourism

    by Ross Dowling, Clare Weeden, Professor Michael Clancy, Professor Ross A Klein, Dr William Terry, Professor Xavier Font, Dr Mireia Guix Navarrete, Dr Maria Jesús Bonilla, Dr Michael Lück0, Dr Jill Poulston1, Michael P. Vogel2, Dr Adam Weaver3, Alexis Papathanassis4, Dr Philip Gibson5, Dr Maree Thyne6, James Henry7, Jo-Anne Lester8, Dr Júlio Mendes9, Dr Manuela Guerreiro0, Bingjie Liu1, Dr Lori Pennington-Gray2, Dr Peter Tarlow3, Dr Arja Lemmetyinen4, Dr Gabriella Polizzi5, Dr Antonino Mario Oliveri6, Dr Sheree-Ann Adams7, Professor James Petrick8, Suiwen Zou9, Dr Kam Hung0, Dr Claire Lambert1, Dr Nigel Jarvis2, Dr Ioannis Pantelidis3, Dr Abel Alonso4, Nevil Alexander5, Dr Eloise Botelho6, Carla Fraga7, Rodrigo Vilani8, Dr Michael Shone9, Dr Jude Wilson0, Dr David G Simmons1, Dr Joseph M Cheer2, Dr Gaetano Sabato3, C Michael Hall4, Hannah Wood5, Sandra Wilson6, Dr Claire Ellis7, Dr Pascal Scherrer8, Kaye Walker9, Dr Daniela Liggett0, Emad Monshi1, Professor Noel Scott2, Dr Marianna Sigala3, Dr Véronique Mondou4, Benjamin Taunay5, Dr Iris Mao6, Dr Emma Stewart7 ...
    Completely updated and revised, Cruise Ship Tourism, 2nd Edition covers the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruising, combining the latest knowledge and research to provide a comprehensive account of the subject. Despite the industry growing rapidly, there is a substantial gap in the related literature, and this book addresses the key issues for researchers, students and industry ... Read more

    $205.09 USD

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    Productivity and Management in Agricultural Systems

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    Food security and environmental conservation are two of the greatest challenges facing the world today. It is predicted that food production must increase by at least 70% before 2050 to support continued population growth, though the size of the world's agricultural area will remain essentially unchanged. This updated and thoroughly revised second edition provides in-depth coverage of the impact ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Tourism

    Principles, Contexts and Practices

    by David A. Fennell, Prof. Chris Cooper ...
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    This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN’s sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and management across destinations, the tourism industry, public sector and leading agencies. The book explores the principal values and priorities in ... Read more

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  • Enabling the City

    Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Research and Practice

    Edited by Josefine Fokdal, Olivia Bina, Prue Chiles, Liis Ojamäe, Katrin Paadam ...
    Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter ... Read more

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  • Artificial or Constructed Wetlands

    A Suitable Technology for Sustainable Water Management

    Edited by María del Carmen Durán-Domínguez-de-Bazúa, Amado Enrique Navarro-Frómeta, Josep M. Bayona ...
    Artificial or constructed wetlands are an emerging technology particularly for tropical areas with water scarcity. For big cities, the sustainable management of water resources taking into account proper use is always challenging. The book presents case studies illustrating the above. As plants and microorganisms are a fundamental part of the correct functioning of these systems, their ... Read more

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  • Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development

    What About the People?

    by Cathy Baldwin, Robin King ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
    Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures. They need to grow rapidly stronger in order to cope, adapt and flourish. Strong social networks and social cohesion can be more important for a community’s resilience than the actual physical structures of a city. But how can urban planning and design support these ... Read more

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  • Waste-to-Wealth

    Resource Recovery and Value-Added Products for Sustainable Development

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    This book covers state-of-the-art resource recovery technologies from the different components of solid waste, such as plastics, e-waste, fly ash, sewage sludge, slag and their real applications. Furthermore, it explains various management strategies for agricultural waste, including the generation of bioenergy from agri-crop residue. It also highlights the recent technologies used in the ... Read more

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